Display device

Abstract

A display device includes: a plurality of sub-pixels each including a memory block that includes a plurality of memories each of which is configured to store sub-pixel data; a plurality of memory selection line groups provided to respective rows and each including a plurality of memory selection lines electrically coupled to the corresponding memory blocks in the sub-pixels that belong to a corresponding row; a memory selection circuit configured to simultaneously output a memory selection signal to the memory selection line groups, the memory selection signal being a signal for selecting one from the plurality of memories in each of the memory blocks. In accordance with the memory selection lines supplied with the memory selection signal, the sub-pixels display an image based on the sub-pixel data stored in memories in the respective sub-pixels, the memories each being one of the plurality of memories in the corresponding sub-pixel.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A display device comprising:
 a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a row direction and a column direction, each of the sub-pixels including
 a sub-pixel electrode, 
 a switch circuit, and 
 a memory block that includes a plurality of memories each of which is configured to store therein sub-pixel data; 
 
 a plurality of memory selection line groups provided to respective rows and each including a plurality of memory selection lines electrically coupled to the corresponding memory blocks in the sub-pixels that belong to a corresponding row; 
 a memory selection circuit configured to simultaneously output a memory selection signal to the memory selection line groups, the memory selection signal being a signal for selecting one from the plurality of memories in each of the memory blocks, wherein 
 in accordance with the memory selection lines that have the memory selection signal supplied thereto, the sub-pixels display an image based on the sub-pixel data stored in memories in the respective sub-pixels, 
 the memory block in each of the sub-pixels includes:
 a first memory and a second memory as the memories; 
 a first memory switch; and 
 a second memory switch, 
 
 in each sub-pixel, the switch circuit is coupled to:
 the first memory through the first memory switch, according to a switch signal from a first one of the memory selection lines of the memory selection line groups; and 
 the second memory through the second memory switch according to a switch signal from a second one of the memory selection lines of the memory selection line groups, 
 
 the switch circuit is configured to output a display signal or an inverted display signal to the sub-pixel electrode based on the sub-pixel data output from the memory block, and 
 the memory selection circuit causes the display device to change an entire image simultaneously by selecting either:
 the first memories in all of the sub-pixels and none of the memories other than the first memories in all of the sub-pixels, or 
 the second memories in all of the sub-pixels and none of the memories other than the second memories in all of the sub-pixels. 
 
 
     
     
       2. The display device according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a plurality of gate line groups provided to respective rows and each including a plurality of gate lines electrically coupled to the memory blocks in the sub-pixels that belong to the corresponding row; 
 a gate line driving circuit configured to sequentially output a gate signal to the rows in writing the sub-pixel data into the memory blocks, the gate signal being a signal for selecting one of the rows; 
 a plurality of source lines provided to respective columns; 
 a source line driving circuit configured to output a plurality of pieces of the sub-pixel data to the respective source lines in writing the sub-pixel data into the memory blocks; and 
 a gate line selection circuit configured to electrically couple one of the gate lines in each of the gate line groups to the gate line driving circuit in writing the sub-pixel data into the memory blocks, wherein 
 in accordance with one of the gate lines that has the gate signal supplied thereto, each of the sub-pixels in one of the rows that has the gate signal supplied thereto stores, in one of the memories therein, the sub-pixel data supplied to the corresponding source line. 
 
     
     
       3. The display device according to  claim 2 , wherein
 in accordance with the memory selection lines that have the memory selection signal supplied thereto, each of the sub-pixels displays an image based on the sub-pixel data stored in the first memory in the sub-pixel, and 
 at the same time, in accordance with the gate line that has the gate signal supplied thereto, each of the sub-pixels stores the sub-pixel data that has been supplied to the corresponding source line in the second memory in the sub-pixel, the second memory being different from the first memory. 
 
     
     
       4. The display device according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 a common electrode configured to be supplied with a common potential that is common to the sub-pixels; 
 a common-electrode driving circuit configured to invert the common potential in synchronization with a reference signal and output the inverted or non-inverted common potential to the common electrode; 
 a plurality of display signal lines provided to the respective rows, each of the display signal lines being electrically coupled to the corresponding switch circuit; and 
 an inversion driving circuit configured to invert the display signal that is in synchronization with the reference signal and output the display signal or the inverted display signal to each of the display signal lines. 
 
     
     
       5. The display device according to  claim 1 ,
 wherein the memory selection circuit sequentially switches a destination to which the memory selection signal is to be output, from one to another among the memory selection lines in each of the memory selection line groups, and 
 wherein, in accordance with the sequential switching of the destination to which the memory selection signal is to be output, each of the sub-pixels displays a moving image based on the sub-pixel data stored in the plurality of memories. 
 
     
     
       6. The display device according to  claim 1 , wherein
 the memory block in each of the sub-pixels further includes a third memory and a third memory switch, 
 in each sub-pixels, the switch circuit is coupled to:
 the first memory through the first memory switch, according to the switch signal from the first one of the memory selection lines of the memory selection line groups; 
 the second memory through the second memory switch according to the switch signal from the second one of the memory selection lines of the memory selection line groups; and 
 the third memory through the third memory switch according to a switch signal from a third one of the memory selection lines of the memory selection line groups, and 
 
 the memory selection circuit causes the display device to change the entire image simultaneously by selecting either:
 the first memories in all of the sub-pixels and none of the memories other than the first memories in all of the sub-pixels; or 
 the second memories in all of the sub-pixels and none of the memories other than the second memories in all of the sub-pixels; or 
 the third memories in all of the sub-pixels and none of the memories other than the third memories in all of the sub-pixels.